Re: Removing parser DIGIT (was: PATCH - DOC: Added @knownissue to NR for fingering

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:48:21PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Perhaps i'll aim for obliterating DIGIT altogether.
>
> I certainly can't think of any case in which we actually need/want
> a DIGIT.  I see that DIGIT was added in release/0.1.49, back in
> 1998-03-17, as part of the initial version of lexer.ll and
> parser.yy.  Maybe it was just part of some template code that they
> used?  Certainly a lot has changed in the past 13 years.  :)
>
> I definitely think it's worth investigating what happens if we
> remove DIGIT entirely.

This.

<URL:http://codereview.appspot.com/4311041>

Please improve/discuss.  This looks totally insane but does not actually
change the existing absurd realities for single-digit unsigned numbers.

I consider this patch the wrong way and hope everybody agrees, but it
_mirrors_ the current behavior for single-digit unsigned numbers.

-- 
David Kastrup